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July 18, 1870

On This Day in HISTORY in 1870 – The First Vatican Council decreed the dogma of papal infallibility. Immediately afterwards Pope Pius IX walked into one of the free-standing marble pillars in the Vatican while walking and talking with Don Joao Carlos de Saldanha Oliveria e Daun, the Prime Minster of Portugal and promptly broke … Continue reading

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